In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... Indians believed that there would be a better life for them after they die, because many of them did not see a way out, but people were still fighting for their lives. ... The most important aspect of the book shows how young Indians aggressively try to overcome all of the harsh reality and attain the one point that would substantially change their lives. The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to...

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The two girls are quite similar characters, but on the other hand, they live completely different lives. Squeaky lives in Harlem, a very urban area of NewYork, where she experiences a tough life, while Hazel lives in the rural south, a place of racial discrimination. ... They fight to achieve respect, which is particulary vital to Squeaky, for she lives in quite a brutal area. ... Furthermore, they learned to demand respect from other people, and for that reason, they needed an attitude to get through life. ... Nonetheless, if you take a closer look, and take a step towards to them, you will n...

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In "A Raisin in the Sun," life was less than fair for Walter. Walter, the man of a poor black family, lives in a small, livable, but not extravagant apartment that shares a single bathroom with the entire floor. ... Her dream, to become a doctor and save the lives of others, is prevented by the racism embedded in society. ... "So now it's life. Money is life. ...

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She definitely lives by this. She lives the life that was given to her, and she lives it to the best of its capacity. ... He makes the children respect him, while no one else does. " In our society, where two- legged, two- armed, strong Black men were able at best to eke out only the necessities of life, Uncle Willie, with his starched shirts, shined shoes and shelves full of food, was the whipping boy and butt of jokes of the underemployed and underpaid." ... He does not allow his lameness to defeat his character, merely he lives with it and remains human. ...

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Although A Raisin in the Sun resembles the events of Hansberry's life, the play is filled with hope and sends a positive message about desegregation. Hansberry's lives are similar to the Younger's in the play. ... Although the Hansberry's lives are parallel to the Younger's, they have some differences. ... Hansberry did not make her play exactly alike as her own life. In real life when she moved to the white's neighborhood, her mom had to be holding a gun all the time in order to defend herself from anything that could happen to her or to her family. ...

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As one of the most representative social animals, human beings keep seeking for their identity and belonging throughout their lives. ... Yet there also exist people like Nelson Mandela, who lives in both the same country and the same era, who are disrupted by such barriers but still find their belonging through hard effort. ... Sandra Laing is obviously the character who suffers most from barriers in life in the film Skin. ... However, such 'stable' life doesn't seem to last long as racial barriers again disrupts her. ... However as a well evolved animal human beings always hav...

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Crash is an exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents - Black, White, Latino, Asian, and Persian. ... Haggis invites the audience into the Latino locksmith's personal life, and we are shown that he is good man, working a long and tedious job to provide for his young daughter. ... In summary, this movie has so many messages about racism and stereotypes and how we deal with it and the sometimes crippling ways that we respond to the situations and people in our lives. ... In his mind, all Filipinos like Karaoke and make it an important part of their lives. ...

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The book explores the life of Clare Kendry who decided to abandon her African-American heritage and contrasts the life of Irene Redfield who finds this abandonment as a problem. ... She marries a white man, who assumes that she is white, and lives her life as a white woman. ... This clearly shows that Irene values her own security rather than the life of Claire. ... The reader is presented with two women of the same background who establish a live their lives completely opposite to one another. For Claire Kendry, passing as a white female takes on a whole new meaning of life for her....

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She endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in black neighborhoods during the black power movement Ruth lives in New York City in a black neighborhood and attends an all black church. ... Through James's narrative technique of weaving his own life story in and out of his mother's story allows us to learn about the lives of mother and son in the context of both stories. ... These issues can teach lessons about life and will open your mind about the complexity of families. ...

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The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together as brothers. ... During that time Sonny's older brother reflects on his past and his life as it is. ... Through their pain and losses the two brothers are brought together for the first tie in their lives. ...

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Passions of the Christ Religion is a very important part of many lives throughout the United States of America. ... The Jews mistreated Jesus Christ simply because he was trying to save lives and teach people about God his father. ... Black people are closer to God, because white people have always had life the way they wanted it, and black people had to struggle and pray to God for years to make life to were black people can have the same amount of rights as white people. ... He was only talking about the life of Jesus Christ. ... I feel as if Mel Gibson did not have any intentions on...

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Educated blacks felt better than the uneducated blacks, and it seemed the more they learned from the white man, the they would develop the ways of white-life. White-life being the way whites are brought up to live their lives. However uneducated blacks still encouraged their children to go out and get an education to better their life, but in the process not to lose sight of their heritage and the background they come from. ... White people see them as outsiders, people who might take their spot in the social structure of there life and black people see them as traders for leaving the lives ...

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Native Son Chicago in the 1930's was split into two opposing views of life: the raw, tough life in the Black Belt of Chicago's south side ghetto and the awe astounding world of the distant white realm. ... He believes it is not possible in his home and in the environment he lives in which is a continual bombardment of shattering defeats for which Bigger is unable to see through. ... He feels uncomfortable in this new and benumbing world he has just stepped into, where "each person lives in one room and has a little world of his own" (100). ... He now knows that he "[lives] an...

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By that, meaning the whites needed the blacks in order to keep their lives organized and crazy-free and the blacks needed the whites to help keep their lives suitable by working. ... But with the help of a military psychiatrist, he was able to turn his life around and actually enjoy it. ... She makes sure that whatever she does with the insurance money and in her life is for the good of the family. ... It was good for Antwone because he needed a father figure in his life. ... The main two characters, Lincoln and Booth, were brothers and each had their own way of looking at life. ...

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Walker and Marshall celebrate these women's lives and they see them as inspirations to become black women writers. ... Walker's and Marshall's identification is related to the African-American culture that they have been exposed to throughout their lives. ... Every week, regardless of her busy life, she makes time to escape to a spiritual place. For Delia, being at church gets rid of all the misfortunes of her life and she finds some inner peace. ... Hurston, as a writer during her life, can be seen as being ahead of her time because she touches on issues that are sensitiv...

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Langston Hughes" poems and stories reveal the author's comprehension of the Negro culture, and his awareness of their individual work in Southern life. In Hughes" writings, the conventional life of the Negro folk is made to come alive, and to show the life of the Negro folk as they are. ... He demonstrated the different approaches and methods, while still concentrating on his position concerning the lives of common black people. ...

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This movie is worthy of condemnation because it demean the importance/seriousness of slavery, makes fun of factual events and groups of people that existed during the time of slavery, and has no life connection or relativity to the one who chose to make fun of this subject. ... The lives lost in the movie does not begin to add up to the actual lives lost in reality, black people did not get to shoot or kill the white people who enslaved them, they lived through enslavement and some died while some escaped in the process. ... Tarantino should look at the movie himself over and over again and...

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Her male characters are all surrounded by legacies that haunt them throughout most of their lives, and this legacy becones them to search out their own family or personal identity. ... In Milkman hits on the false pretense of a life that he was living. ... His identity was their identity and in realizing their history and their lives, he could form a true black male identity of his own. ... "Everybody wants the life of a black man. ... What good is a man's life is he can't even choose what to die for?...

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X and King by the end of their lives were fighting to achieve the same goals but in different routes with same objectives. ... However, he went through several phases in his life, one key phase was after his break with the black Muslims after visiting Mecca. ... Like Malcolm, King went through several periods in his life where he changed his thinking and approach. ... The media portrayed Malcolm X in a negative and incorrect manner because they only addressed one aspect of his life, his contempt for white people, when he is multifaceted. ... In Martin Luther King's and Malcolm X'...

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As I listened to the video more carefully and I understood more about the lives Victoria Price and Ruby Bates led, I could not help but feel empathy for them. ... They also saw Leibowitz as a threat to the southern way of life because he was a Jewish attorney from New York. ... Judge Horton became a hero during this trial because he had the courage to go against what everyone else thought was right and helped save the lives of the young black men. ... All of the Scottsboro nine except for one led troubled lives. ...

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These troops were one of the first black soldiers to become great defenders of the United States military, they determined themselves and risked their lives, learning all of the proper techniques and tactics to defeat the enemy. ... Although these men had a hard time trying to live a proper life in which there wasn't any higher or lesser individual, as time progressed, these soldiers began to inhabit their differences and judge themselves equals. ... "They have risked their lives to save their life, my life, they have given their freedom." These words demonstrate the acknowledgement on...

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The movie centers on the Finch family and their day to day life. ... Since the mother died during childbirth, there was no mother figure in the children's lives; therefore, their father, Atticus, raised Scout and Jim. ... I do acknowledge that many things have changed in our lives from the time of the Depression to the present, but I believe other factors may be involved. ...

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"She had the tired, tentative look of a woman who"d been ignored all her married life, who had no expectations- This prejudice was considered normal and accepted in many families. ... With the war against Japan happening at these times, white Australia categorised any person remotely Japanese as the enemy, even if these people had lived in Australia all their lives. ... This was generally because the community of Broome had become accustomed to it and therefore accepted it as part of their lives. ...

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Jimmy had a good child hood, however when he reached his teens he went through some rough treatment because he was confused about his life, he experienced racism, violence, and mistreatment. ... He was being pushed into things he didn't want to do, being a black man Growing up in a white mans world was too hard for him to handle, he burst out and started killing everyone that turned his life around, starting with the women from the farm that he worked at. ... His life was ended when he hunted down by locals pleading for justice. ... Racism is a serious issue in which both Herbie and...

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While attempting to satisfy their wishes, he forgets that his own dignity is most important in life. ... This message means no matter what, just give the nigger boy enough to keep him going in life because he is nothing. The reasons why because he lives in a society that does not except him as a person, but rather more like an animal that does not disserve any human rights. ... The white's opinion did matter because it was them who controlled society and them who determined the quality of life in the black community. ...

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